This New App Counts How Many Times You Get Interrupted by a Dude

The face of a woman who can’t believe this guy just interrupted her again.

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Manterrupting is real, and the anecdotal evidence of it (including notable examples straight from the stage of a certain presidential debate) is overwhelming. Now, there's a way to collect the data behind the phenomenon in real time: Scheduled to coincide with International Women's Day on Wednesday, March 7, advertising agency BETC has launched Woman Interrupted, an app that uses your phone's microphone to analyze voice frequencies and count how many times a man's voice cuts into a woman's speech.

Its creators are prepping for a fact-based war on manterruption, which "stops women from expressing themselves and has deep impact on their studies, careers and personal lives," as they state on the app's site. "This is why we created [the] Woman Interrupted app. To show that it happens more than we think." BETC plans to aggregate the manterruption stats it collects to create a global map of where, when, and how often women around the world are being interrupted.

As for privacy, the agency assures that "No conversations are recorded or stored: everything goes from voice to data, automatically." You can download the app on both iOS and Android as you wait for the invention of the app that will finally get dudes to stop doing this.

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